Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever gleefully walked into your garden, anxiously anticipating your early summer sweet-corn harvest, only to find that ...

In tall rows of brambles or tomatoes, farm interns can't always see one another, but our yelps and shrieks carry. On a few occasions a giant tiger bee toting a paralyzed cicada had buzzed a person's ...

You've probably seen it, the bumpy gray mass bulging from the kernels on a golden ear of corn. It is called corn smut (Ustilago maydis) and looks quite unappetizing. But it isn't. The ancient Aztecs ...

Corn smut in California. Photo by David Cohen/flickr/CC BY 2.0 An unsightly fungal disease called corn smut strikes fear in the hearts of American and Canadian farmers. When it appears as fleshy, ...